Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-03-24
MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE.


THE Senate passed the following bills ON tho
l1th inst. To provide for the appointment Of a
game and fish warden and prescribing his
powers and duties to authorize East Saginaw
10 borrow money to extend a sewer; to author
lie the village of LOWELL Kent County, TO bor-
row money; to amend the act in regard to tho
filing, recording, and discharging OF attach
ments to authorize the Boards OF Supervis-
ors in all the counties OF the State to purchase
burial-places for soldiers, sailors, and marines
also a Joint resolution authorizing the First
Presbyterian Society Of Lansing 70 sell certain
real estate. The House passed bills TO amond
charter OF Marshall City; to amend charter of
Detroit City; TO authorize the issue Of patent
TO Frederick Durand for certain land in Are
nae County; to reincorporate the village of
Pierson. Montcalm County; to revise the char
In Saginaw County to borrow money to improve
Cheboyganning Creek. The House INDUCED in
q very warm debate over message sent to the
Executive recalling Representative Horsfords 8
bill which awaited his signature to become q law.
The object Of the bill was to make clear the
meaning OF the words actual damage" in libel
suits. The bill makes the words to mean all
damages that may be shown that tho plaintiff
has suffered in respect to his property, business,
trade, profession, or occupation, and no other
damages. Tho bill was in tho interest of fair
RlaX in spiss Some members were
called and sent back to tho Senate for amond-
ment. The fate Of the bill is now uncertain.
Both houses adjourned to the 14th.
ASIDE from the report OF petitions and remon-
strances. and the reference Of bills no business
was transacted by the Senate on the 14th. The
action OF the House was of the same character.
remonstrance was presented in the Senate
against the passage OF bill legalizing the bonds
issued by the township officers of Billings, in
Gladwin County. IL charges irregular proceed
ings by the said officers, and that the amount OF
the issue is unknown, but supposed to exceed
the entire township valuation.
The Senate bill limiting the privileges OF the
State University to citizens of Michigan was re-
ported upon adversely in the Senate on the 18th
inst. The committee on the State House of
OF 1900 for repairs and improvement. Bills
passed TO cede to the United States exclusive
jurisdiction over the new postoffice site at
Detroit and to revise and amend the charter OF
the city OF Marshall. In the House bills passed
to incorporate the village OF Eagle, Clinton
County; a Joint resolution authorizing the Gov
ernor to issue patent to Francis Howell for q
certain parcel OF primary school land a con-
current resolution providing for the purchase Of
piano for the executive parlor. Mr.. oviatt's
bill to provide for the death penalty in certain
cases Of murder and assault had previously
been made the special order, and was considered
in committee Of the whole, with the Speak
offered by Mr.. Perkins, making the
death penalty discretionary with the
jury. Mr.. Bates offered an amendment pro-
yiding that persons convicted Of murder in the
first degree should suffer the death penalty.
Both substitute and amendment were rejected
Mr.. Snow, OF Saginaw, moved to strike out all
ulJoE buO euHCLlnB Clause Wn6n Jno discussion
became very earnest and continued during the
afternoon and through an evening session.
Statistics and Scripture quotations figured
largely in the debate on both sides. The mo-
ton 10 strike out all after the enacting clause
failed, and the bill was laid upon the table
Governor Luce appointed William A. Smith, Of
Grand Rapids, State Game and Fish Warden,
under the new law just enacted.
BILLS to revise the charter Of the village Of
Williamson and to repeal the act organizing tho
township of Gustin, Altoona County, passed tho
Senate on the 10th inst. The Judiciary Com
mittee made an adverse report upon the bill to
amend the act relating to the revision and con-
solidation OF the laws relating to the or
ganization OF insane asylums. The COM
mittee appointed to investigate the charges
against Senator Post, which appeared in the St
Louis Mich Post, the editor of which is an en-
ploye of the Senate, made report generating
the Senator, but declared the editor deserving
OF censure for not correcting the error when his
attention was called to it. The House spent
most important bill discussed was one provid-
ing for the conviction and punishment OF con-
victs serving sentences in the State penal
institutions who shall commit crimes punisha-
ble with imprisonment while there. 1t provides
that upon conviction the court may in its dis
erection have the sentence commence at once
or at the expiration of the sentence the convict
then serving This brought out a very warm
discussion. Mr.. Bates bill placing tho
public roads in the several counties under the
control of Board of County Commissioners
had all after the enactment clause stricken out
OF the Supreme Court to 1000. The Committee
on Railroads reported adversely ON the bill to
regulate the use and rental Of telephones. Also
q bill to prescribe the duties and prohibiting
discrimination between parties using tele-
phones.
THE following bills were passed by the Sem
ate on March II: To authorize the township of
st. Joseph to borrow money to build bridge !;
to amend the act providing for the adjustment
Of rights and liabilities in the division OF the ter
M md fOxUV IN OH fnaV
OF st. Anthony Orphan Asylum at Hamtramck ;
70 facilitate the commencement OF suits in
justice courts to authorize the transcript of
Judgment from the docket of one justice of
the peace to that of another; to amend act rela-
tive to executions and judgments to organize
the township Of Cedar, in Mackinac County; to
authorize the Ingham County Agricultural So
ciety to sell or mortgage its real estate TO pay
It's indebtedness to provide for the publication
OF the proceedings OF the Michigan Dairymans
Association; to amend the act in relation to the
Superior Court Of Grand Rapids with regard
to the challenging of jurors; to require
prosecuting attorneys to appear and conduct
criminal prosecutions in tho Supreme Court in
certain cases; to amend the act relative to the
disposition OF real and personal estate by will
to amend the act relative to criminal proceed
ings in criminal courts, to provide wives with
property or maintenance from their husbands
estate whom neglected or deserted by them to
amend the act relative to exemption from mill
tary duty-this law renders all able-bodied
male persons, between the ages OF 1S and As,
liable to military duty, excepting the State
and United statos exemptions, and also
removes the exemptions from clergy
men, teachers in public schools, and
commissioned officers of the State militia; TO
define the qualifications Of Deputy Sheriffs to
be hereafter appointed in the State; this prac-
tically prevents the employment of ~Pinkerton
men" in case OF strikes and disturbances one
of the qualifications is that said deputy must
be resident of the State ut least six months
TO be eligible. In the House bills were passed
To designate the place of holding elections in
Midland Midland County; to amend the law
relative to the incorporation OF companies for
mining and smelling to authorize the incorpo-
ration of park and summer resort associations
to authorize the incorporation OF engineering
societies. In honor Of St Patrick's day reso-
luton passed expressing sympathy with Home
Rule in Ireland, and indorsing the course OF
Gladstone and Parnell. The House then went
into committee of the whole, with Hon. Patrick
Stuart, OF Wayne, in the Chair, and the after
noon was spent in celebrating the anniversary
in a suitable manner.
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